1. Eugene Lee-Hamilton was a late Victorian English poet.
12 Facts About Eugene Lee-Hamilton
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Eugene Lee-Hamilton's work includes some notable sonnets in the style of Petrarch.
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Eugene Lee-Hamilton endowed a literary prize administered by Oriel College in Oxford University, where he was a student.
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Eugene Lee-Hamilton was born in London on 6 January 1845; his parents were James Lee-Hamilton, who died in 1852, and Matilda, daughter of Edward Hamlyn Adams.
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Eugene Lee-Hamilton had a younger half sister Violet Paget, who wrote as Vernon Lee.
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Eugene Lee-Hamilton was first attached to the Embassy at Paris, where, due to his early experiences of French life, and mastery of the French language, he was eminently suitable.
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Eugene Lee-Hamilton spent much of his adult life suffering from psychological ailments.
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Eugene Lee-Hamilton was nursed by his mother and sporadically by his half-sister, Violet Paget, who wrote under the name Vernon Lee.
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Robert Browning was an influence, but Eugene Lee-Hamilton refined the art of the dramatic monologue, and there is a restless imagination to his sonnets.
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Eugene Lee-Hamilton condensed the dramatic monologue into a sonnet format, and gained power, in sonnets that are concise and restrained.
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Eugene Lee-Hamilton had tried too many doctors in vain, so refused to consult any more.
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Eugene Lee-Hamilton seemed to have regained his lost youth at a bound, for he re-entered society with all the zest of an undergraduate.